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Imagine…Learning from Real Life
Students choose to enroll in law school. They arrive on the first day excited to begin learning the law. Unfortunately, most students lose this excitement for learning somewhere on the road to...
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Input needed: Newest SRC Accreditation Revisions & Chicago Meeting
As most of you already know, the ABA Standards Review Committee (SRC), the body that proposes changes to the law school accreditation standards for action by the ABA Council on Legal Education, is...
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Tales from the Assessment Trail
Like many schools, here at UMKC Law we have been working steadily on our assessment plan. After two retreats, six focus group meetings with attorneys, countless meetings and even more emails, we have...
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On being evaluated
Last week was a huge evaluation week for me. I was honored to be a finalist in an internal search for Provost of the University of New Mexico and went through a grueling series of interviews. And, I am...
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Building on Best Practices–Call for Ideas and Authors
The Clinical Legal Association Best Practices Implementation Committee is planning a follow-up publication to Best Practices for Legal Education by Roy Stuckey and others. The vision of the book is to...
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And we think that we have it tough . . . consider the Japanese bar exam
As we count down toward this summer’s bar, trying to soothe our nervous-to-frantic recent grads, might want to suggest that they read “A Japanese Legal Exam That Sets the Bar High” (I realize that not...
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Talk about multi-competency assessment of professional qualifications . . ....
Worth checking out: “New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test“. Eight US and 13 Canadian medical schools, including Stanford and UCLA, have adopted the “multiple mini interview,” or M.M.I....
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Building on Best Practices: Call for Ideas and Authors
The Clinical Legal Association, Best Practices Implementation Committee is planning a follow-up publication to Best Practices for Legal Education by Roy Stuckey and others. The vision of the book...
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Harvard Law’s Curricular Reform: 3 Years In
This was recently posted on PrawfsBlog by Glen Cohen. Several years ago, under the stewardship of then-dean Kagan and then-professor-now-dean Minow, Harvard Law School made a significant change to its...
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Assessment Tales: The Bluebooks That Stayed
It’s that time of year when we all have the grading of our last semester’s bluebooks well behind us and the last few students have come in to review their exams. So we have packed up the bluebooks to...
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Maximizing Active Learning
The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning has some fascinating ideas about getting students invested in the materials they are learning. Most recently, Sophie M. Sparrow at the University of New...
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Four Proposals on Faculty Forwarded to Council on Legal Education
As readers of this blog remember, the July ABA Standards Review Committee (SRC) meeting was slated to be an important one . SRC actions taken with respect to the curriculum and program of legal...
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Are The Walls Coming Down?
Happened upon Eugene Volockh’s blog post on peer feedback today, though he didn’t use that term. Struck me as great example both of the way “the walls are coming down” in legal education and of the...
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ABA COUNCIL ELIMINATES ANY MEANINGFUL SECURITY OF POSITION FOR FACULTY AND...
As reported last week here, the ABA Council on Legal Education met in San Francisco to review proposed revisions to law school accreditation standards. The ABA reviewed four proposals sent to them by...
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New Blog
Teaching & Learning in Higher Ed. (ISSN 2329-2504), a digital project that supports teachers and reformers in higher education through encouraging serious engagement with the scholarship on...
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Free Upcoming Webinar: Flipping the Law School Classroom
Join LegalED for a free webinar on Flipping the Law School Classroom When: Friday, Sept 27th from 2-3 pm EST What is LegalED? Founded by law professors, LegalED is a website, legaledweb.com,...
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A rose by any other name: Evaluation and Assessment at Cross Purposes
A barrier to developing, improving, or sharing our assessment practices is the confusion surrounding the vocabulary of assessment. Whenever it occurs or by whatever method, assessment is simply the...
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Congratulations UNM and Editors of the proposed new Best Practices Book!
This weekend, the University of New Mexico hosted a workshop BEST PRACTICES IN LEGAL EDUCATION: The Walls Are Coming Down” in which draft chapters of a new “Best Practices” book were reviewed and...
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The Ideal Law School Graduate? A ‘People Person’ Who Can Do Research
By: Jacob Gershman You can be a sharp writer and a nimble researcher who is skilled at analyzing cases. But for law school graduates entering the workforce, it’s the softer skills, like work ethic,...
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Evidence Based Experiential Learning?
Over on the Legal Whiteboard, Bill Henderson has an interesting post noting that despite the current call for more experiential education, we lack evidence to answer two key questions: “(1) Among...
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